Tensions boiled over after the two got into a fistfight behind play, with players from both teams all joining in soon after.

The reaction brewed from pre-existing tensions between the two teams in last year’s AL Division Series, with Bautista’s infamous bat flip after hitting a home-run off Sam Dyson, a reaction dubbed by Andrew Keh of The New York Times as possibly "the most ostentatious bat flip in MLB history.”